Friday, 19 August 2016

Fourth Sitting of the Subcommittee for Monitoring the Agricultural Situation in the Marginal - Most Undeveloped Areas in the Republic of Serbia

At the fourth sitting, held on 19 August, the members of the Subcommittee for Monitoring the Agricultural Situation in the Marginal - Most Undeveloped Areas in the Republic of Serbia reviewed the work done so far on the proposal to amend and modify the Law regulating the return of rough grazings and pastures to villages for use and the initiative to amend the Rulebook determining areas with difficult working conditions in agriculture.


Regarding the Subcommittee’s proposal to amend and modify the Law regulating the return of rough grazings and pastures to villages for use and the initiative to amend the Rulebook determining areas with difficult working conditions in agriculture, the Subcommittee members talked to the representative of the relevant ministry and ascertained that the Law regulating the return of rough grazings and pastures to villages for use, unchanged since 1992, should either be put out of force or at the very least be amended, drawing particular attention to Article 9 which bans the return of lands to local self-governments for use. By doing this, they stressed, marginal areas could be financed at the local level and it could also alleviate unemployment in demographically endangered areas.

The Subcommittee members then spoke to Rajica Mihajlovic, professor of the Faculty of Civil Engineering in Belgrade, Milivoje Abramovic of the Republic Geodetic Authority and Nenad Gvozdenovic, representative of GIZ, about the implementation of the Law on Agricultural Land in the part concerning land consolidation (commassation). The officials said that the provisions of the Law on Agricultural Land concerning commassation should either be amended or a new law should be passed, one that only deals with the process of commassation. Milivoje Abramovic said that there was practically no process of commassation on the territory of the Republic of Serbia between 1991 and 2006 and the lack of management of the land has led to the present situation. The attending agreed that the chief measures that should be undertaken on the issue are management of rural areas, merging of agricultural land, organisation of agricultural production, construction and rehabilitation of roads, and protection of agricultural land. Nenad Gvozdenovic added that seven municipalities - Pluzine, Vlasko Polje, Krivi Vir, Radojac, Paracin, Vojcince and Pirot, have launched pilot projects of commassation, and invited the Subcommittee members to visit these areas.

The Subcommittee adopted a Conclusion stating the need to amend and modify the Law on Agricultural Land in the part concerning commassation or pass a new law on commassation.

The sitting was chaired by Subcommittee Chairman Milija Miletic.



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